Web-based IRC lets you talk to LUGOD members in your browser
Posted 2012-02-01 01:55:00
We just discovered that Freenode offers a web-based IRC interface.
Go to http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#lugod
to join LUGOD's IRC channel. There are literally thousands
of other open source-related channels on Freenode, as well!

Hands-on demo for Co-op "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise"
Posted 2012-01-14 15:15:00
Thanks to the
Davis Food Co-Op for inviting us to
be part of their "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise" series of events this month, and
to Tim Riley, Brian Lavender, Sing, and Alex Mandel who joined me
(Bill Kendrick) and my son in putting together today's demo, and answering
questions. We had a great turnout, lots of interest in Monday's
anniversary meeting, and at least
one new Tux Paint fan.

2012 call for speakers
Posted 2012-01-05 18:20:00
At long last, we've exhausted our long schedule of guest speaker
presentations, so we're once again (always, in fact!)
seeking speakers. If you, or someone you know, would
like to speak, or you have a topic or speaker you'd like to suggest,
please contact Bill Kendrick at pr@lugod.org.

Join us in January!
Posted 2012-01-04 15:45:00
Come by and say 'hello' during our
hands-on Linux demo at the Davis Food Co-Op
on Saturday, January 14th. Then be sure to come join the festivities, and learn
about "Processing" at our big anniversary meeting that
Monday, January 16th. We'll be in the Club Room at the
Veterans Memorial Center (between Davis
High School and the Yolo County Public library, on East 14th Street).

Tonight's social gathering at Ciocolat
Posted 2012-01-03 15:00:00
We've been informed that Crepeville is under renovation at the moment, so
we'll be holding our social gathering at
Ciocolat, which is down a block,
at the corner of 3rd and B Streets in downtown Davis. Sorry for the short
notice!

Flyer for January "Processing" meeting and anniversary celebration
Posted 2011-12-30 20:10:00
Happy New Year! We've put together a little
flyer for our
January anniversary meeting.
Please print and post, to help spread the word. Thanks!

LUGOD 13th anniversary meeting in January!
Posted 2011-12-15 11:10:00
The Linux Users' Group of Davis will be marking its 13th birthday at our
January meeting (Monday the 16th).
Along with a presentation on "Processing", we'll be celebrating with free
food and cake, and give-away prizes from O'Reilly and ThinkGeek.
We'll be meeting at the Veterans'
Memorial Center (next to the public library), in the Club Room. Please
join us, and bring your friends!

LUGOD invited to paritipate in January "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise" activites at the Davis Food Co-Op
Posted 2011-12-05 17:35:00
We've been invited to do a demo or
presentation at the Davis Food Co-Op
during 31 days of activities during January. See the thread on 'vox' starting
here.

Venues needed for November and January meetings
Posted 2011-10-26 10:40:00
The public library will be closed on the days we're holding our November (21st)
and January (16th) meetings, and their
security system is still not configured to allow after-hours access.
If you can provide space for either or both meetings, please email
Bill Kendrick. (Note: Our January meeting
will be our 13th birthday, so we're looking for somewhere with capacity for
40-80 people, and that allows food.) Thanks in advance!

Nominations now being accepted for LUGOD officer positions
Posted 2011-10-18 10:25:00
As of last night's meeting, nominations are now open for LUGOD's
elected officer positions: root (president), sys (vice president),
typescript (secretary) and /dev/null (treasurer). If you
would like to nominate yourself, or someone else, for one or more position,
please email your nomination to LUGOD's secretary at:
typescript@lugod.org. Nominations
will be accepted until November 20th, and elections will being starting
at November's meeting. (Note: It's been 6 years since we've had to vote
— usually no more than one candidate gets chosen per position —
but if we do, it will take place online between the November and December
meetings.) See our Bylaws for more.

"Hacking Space Exploration and Science" in October; Speaker and Location TBD in November
Posted 2011-09-19 10:30:00
The public library will be on furlough towards the end of November, so we'll
need a venue (as well as a speaker) for our November 21st meeting.
In the meantime, we rounded up Ariel Waldman of Spacehack.org to come
speak at our October 17th meeting (which will be at the library).

Installfest confirmed for this Saturday
Posted 2011-06-16 12:05:00
Thanks to Alex Mandel and Dan Fiske, LUGOD will be holding a free
Installfest workshop this Saturday!
Please RSVP in advance if you'd like to bring a
computer in, and get help installing or configuring Linux on it!

Installfest tentatively scheduled for June 18th
Posted 2011-05-20 16:10:00
It looks like our next Installfest workshop will probably
be on Saturday, June 18th, at N Street Cohousing's commonhouse.
We'll post more details once it's confirmed.

Slides and code from "MyForth" and "Hibernate" presentations
Posted 2011-03-29 19:00:00
Charles and Brian have both provided us with
presentation slides and
source code downloads for their presentations on "MyForth" and "Hibernate"
at last week's LUGOD meeting. Enjoy!

Thanks to Brian and Charles
Posted 2011-03-21 21:14:00
Thanks to Charles Shattuck for doing a short talk on "MyForth" and Brian
Lavender for a short talk on "Hibernate," filling in for our guest speaker
who was stuck in Southern California due to the big storm. John from LFS
has offered to reschedule the "Full Scale Flight Simulator" talk for later
this year. Sorry to those who were disappointed by the last-minute
cancellation!

No flight simulator talk tonight
Posted 2011-03-21 17:50:00
Our guest speakers were stormed in, so as warned on 'vox' and 'vox-announce'
mailing lists, we aren't having the flight simulator talk tonight... but join
us for an impromtu Plan B. 7pm at the library!

Social gathering next Tuesday, "Full Scale Flight Simulators" on March 21st
Posted 2011-02-25 10:20:00
A rare aligning of the calendars has caused our next social gathering
(Tuesday, March 1st) to occur only one week after our
last meeting (this week's "IPv6" talk). See you at
Crepeville!

Officers remain
Posted 2011-02-22 10:00:00
Since there were no nominations made, and no objections to keeping the
current officers at last night's meeting,
elections will not be held until the regularly-scheduled ones on October.

Elections survey non-conclusive
Posted 2011-02-15 11:40:00
Only two people responded regarding
whether LUGOD
should hold elections now (since we forgot to last October!), or wait
until this October.

So we'll hold them if anyone wishes to run against the current officers,
otherwise we'll just stick with the current
ones. If you'd like to nominate yourself, or someone else, please email
typescript by February 20th
(the day before our next meeting).

"Introduction to IPv6 Socket Programming" next week
Posted 2011-02-15 11:25:00Join us next Monday for a presentation by
Owen DeLong of Hurricane Electric on IPv6 socket programming.
7pm at Explorit Nature Center.

Additionally, we forgot to hold elections for
club officers in October! We'll be
holding an informal survey on 'vox'
to find out whether we should hold elections immediately, or just wait
until this October.

Installfest this month!
Posted 2011-01-14 11:45:00
LUGOD and the Computer
Science Club at UC Davis will be holding a free
Linux Installfest workshop on
Friday, January 28th, starting at 5pm. At Kemper Hall,
Room 1003, UC Davis. Please register
if you'd like to bring your computer to this event and get
help installing/configuring Linux.

One down, one to go: January 2011 meetings
Posted 2011-01-12 11:20:00
We had a relatively small, but lively crowd show up for
our short-notice bonus meeting last night, to learn about
Linux on satellites and CubeSat, and to digress into a
conversation on artificial intelligence.
(Photos,
minutes.)

Mark Terranova, from the Bay Area non-profit
The Gidget Kitchen,
will be there to talk about how Free and Open Source communities
compare to cults (seriously!). As always, our meeting is free
and open to the public. Learn more.

Monday's LUGOD
Posted 2010-12-18 16:15:00
Apparently, The Enterprise says that this Monday's meeting requires RSVP,
but that's not true! However, it sounds like this will be a popular
meeting, and space is limited, so it might become standing-room only!
Update: It turns out to have been confusion thanks to word-wrap.

December's LUGOD will be in 3-D!Posted 2010-12-06 16:30:00
Our previously-scheduled talk, "WidgetFX," has moved to
December of next year. Instead,
this month
we'll have Oliver Kreylos of UC Davis
KeckCAVES who will
demonstrate how one can commodity devices like the
Xbox Kinect, Nintendo Wiimote and PlayStation Move to
create and interact in 3D virtual environments.
(You might have seen some of
his videos.)